The Animators 2002-2007 torrent

"one more present

dear friends -

the animators played our last show together in 2007, but we still have one final holiday present for you: our music.

http://theanimators.com

we've posted our entire catalog on our website for free download: all three studio albums, a complete recording of our final show, and a handful of unreleased tracks. it's one last thanks to you and to all of our fans, collaborators, supporters and fellow-travelers. we hope you'll enjoy and share our music for a long time to come.

...

from all of us, thank you again for your support through the years, and
thank you, one more time, for listening.


the animators"


all tracks have been released by the band for non-commercial use under the creative commons license, with the exception of "better not say" from home by now and "buy buy" from how we fight. (all of these songs were available directly from http://www.theanimators.com until their bandwidth was exceeded)


HOME BY NOW (2003)
1 Nice Guy
2 Rearrange
3 Girl #3
4 The Drive
5 Better Not Say*
6 Medicine
7 A Perfect World
8 Simple
9 If Only
10 How To Get By
11 Help Is On The Way

THE CHAMBER SESSIONS (2004)
1 Good To Be Here
2 A Girl Like You
3 Words Fail
4 Avalon
5 Every Heart Will Break

HOW WE FIGHT (2006)
1 Good To Be Here
2 Die In LA
3 Late Night Show
4 I Won't Tell
5 How Do I Get Over You
6 The Senator Goes To Hell
7 Good Day
8 Buy Buy*
9 Take It So Hard
10 How We Fight
11 Ordinary Moment
12 The Golden Age

UNRELEASED TRACKS AND B-SIDES
1 After The Rain 8.22.06
2 Brooklyn Blurs 1.14.07
3 Who's Gonna Save This Town? (Buffalo) 12.21.03
4 Good Day (Rock Version) 4.14.05
5 Mercy Mercy
6 Right Here 4.15.05

THE LAST SHOW (June 3, 2007)
1 Nice Guy
2 Die In LA
3 Good Day
4 Girl 3
5 The Drive
6 I Won't Tell
7 Golden Age
8 banter: Tuba Joe
9 The Senator Goes to Hell
10 banter: no set break
11 Brooklyn Blurs
12 banter: More Matta
13 Words Fail
14 A Girl Like You/More Than Words (Extreme)
15 Every Heart Will Break
16 How to Get By
17 Good to Be Here
18 Rearrange
19 How Do I Get Over You
20 If Only
21 Ordinary Moment
22 banter: drum-off
23 Simple
24 banter: not long now
25 Late Night Show
26 Mercy Mercy
27 encore break
28 Help Is On The Way

"and in case you're curious about what each of us has been up to, here's the quick update:

alex is currently working on a new project with good friend and collaborator, Amber Rubarth, called The Paper Raincoat. They plan to release an EP on March 5th with a show at the Canal Room, NYC, immediately followed by a tour to Sweden, France, and the UK...(http://myspace.com/thepaperraincoat). He also continues to perform and tour with New York artists Vienna Teng (http://viennateng.com) and Deadbeat Darling (http://myspace.com/deadbeatdarling), and write and produce various artists out of Angelhouse Studios in Brooklyn. keep up with him here: http://myspace.com/donwongdemarco

devon has been living in beijing since july, eating too much duck and working with a harvard start-up, noank media (http://noankmedia.com) on a new model for legalizing file sharing. he expects to return to new york in early 2008 and hopes to see many of you soon after!

kevin has been touring with ben jelen (custard records) supporting acts such as pete yorn and common. ben and kevin will be out on the road again in '08 -- find tour dates at http://myspace.com/benjelen. kevin also continues to rock out (with phil!) with newly-anointed SNL guitarist jared scharff (http://myspace.com/jaredscharffmusic) and with NYC rockers atomictom (www.weareatomictom.com). drop by http://myspace.com/kevinrice for a complete list of projects, shows, and updated news.

phil has spent the last six months working as a freelance audio engineer, with his work appearing on ESPN and HBO. on the playing side, he's been keeping busy (with kevin!) with both Jared Scharff and the Royals and Atomictom, as well as various hired gigs. He continues to work on his own material; check it out (soon, he promises!) at http://myspace.com/philipgalitzine."